The Commons Cafe is seeking musicians to perform on a rotating basis on their outdoor stage. Contact tpalladino.hilton@gmail.com with a link to 2 or more songs and you might just land a regular gig at the cafe where meals are on a mission…
The JPMorgan Chase Arts in Our Communities Grant and the *NEW* Achieve Your Mission Grant, are available now. Both grants have a maximum request of $3000.
Deadline: May 23, 2012 – Midnight
To learn more about the new Achieve Your Mission Grant, or the Arts in Our Communities Grant, or to [...]
Building relationships with funders is an art, not a science. One RFP after another are sent to your inbox, but how should you artfully pursue a foundation?
Theresa A. Schieber from The Whelan Group gave a thoughtful and helpful presentation at the Staten Island Not-for-profit Conference this past March that [...]
There are times when New York City feels like a small town. Times when the passing of one person, within a city of 8.5 million, lays heavy upon so many. The passing of Irish flautist and NEA National Heritage Fellow, Jack Coen, is one of those times. I had never had the chance to hear [...]
Ms. Fatma Akcay is a senior at Curtis High School and the recent winner of the ‘Legend Award.’ This award was made possible thanks to a new partnership between the Legend Business Group, and the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island to help budding artists with their painting, drawing, sculpture and installations.
Fortunately, [...]
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of learning, sharing, and absorbing lots of great ideas at SINC, the Staten Island Non-for-Profit Conference. This half-day conference jam packed with professional development and networking opportunities for Staten Island nonprofit sector drew over a hundred eager staffers and enthusiastic consultants.
The event’s program and speakers offered a good [...]
I’m not going to try to convince you that it’s a good thing to bring more musical instruments into Staten Island schools; I hope it’s a given.
Instead, I want to ask you to help us to do something about it. If you were at COAHSI’s “Night of Staten Island Artists” in January you heard [...]
Does anybody know what happened to Video Ulqini on Victory Boulevard in Tompkinsville? The store was near the the intersection of Victory and Cebra Avenue. Video Ulqini was opened in 1983 by Staten Island resident Renzi Murati. For almost thirty years this store sold important sounds and symbols of Albanian culture to the large Albanian [...]
It is a truism that good artists don’t automatically make good teachers of their art. Teaching is a separate talent. It is also a learned skill; one that can be built and strengthened. And when an excellent artist becomes a teaching artist, sparks can fly – the good kind of sparks, the kind that travel [...]
On Friday, March 16th, 2012 COAHSI and the SI Non-for-Profit Association will take over Wagner College’s Spiro Center to once again host SINC (Staten Island’s Non-for-Profit Conference).
One of the main goals of this year’s conference is to unleash the power of SHARING, and start finding new ways to exchange and share space, ideas, technology, [...]
The “Venue” series is an ongoing listing of various art presentation venues on Staten Island (temporary, alternative, and traditional). Every few days, we will provide a comprehensive profile that details specifics about the presentation areas available and the correct person to contact. We hope that this list will not only streamline the process of finding [...]
You’ve probably seen these flyers and brochures around the island, you know, the ones about Tom Sawyer/Mark Twain and The Big Read. What is this all about anyway? Well, I recently asked Beth Gorrie, Executive Director of Staten Island OutLOUD, to tell us about this exciting series of events, and to share some interesting facts [...]
Ah, to be an artist…spending your free time painting, singing in cafes, dancing in your living room, or taking photographs, not a care in the world…YEA RIGHT!
What a total misconception that is. We know that artists are always working…whether it’s on their art, or just to make a living, or usually, both. So yea, [...]
The New York Foundation for the Arts asked me to answer some questions about the Folklife program here on Staten Island. It was a great exercise in thinking about the past and future of Folkarts activities on Staten Island. Thanks to the New York Foundation for the Arts for giving me a soap box!
